The Hindu : `Govt. with a difference' should go: Youth Cong.

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`Govt. with a difference' should go: Youth Cong.

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI AUG. 9. The Indian Youth Congress (IYC) today staged a dharna outside the Union Petroleum Ministry office in the Capital asking the BJP-led NDA Government to resign in the wake of the petrol pump allotment scam.

Addressing the gathering, the Congress Working Committee member, Ram Niwas Mirdha, said the Atal Behari Vajpayee Government had no right to continue in power. Criminal case should be registered against the Union Petroleum Minister, Ram Naik, and an independent inquiry be instituted into the matter.

Exhorting the IYC activists to launch a nation-wide campaign against the corrupt BJP leaders, Mr. Mirdha said under the BJP-led Government, the nation's development and progress had reached its nadir and only its ouster could bring some hope of the people.

The CWC member, Mani Shankar Aiyar, alleged that in its rule the BJP had done nothing but to promote corruption and ruined the country by plunging into one scam after another. The Government has no right to continue in power and should resign immediately, he added.

Demanding constitution of a high-powered judicial panel to probe the petrol pump allotment scam, the IYC president, Randeep Singh Surjewala, said the cancellation of all post-2002 allotments by Mr. Vajpayee was nothing but mere eye-wash and an attempt to hoodwink people.

More important was to probe the entire matter and punish the guilty, he said, adding that the scam revealed that the BJP functionaries had nothing to do with nation's development and progress but were concerned only about their gains.

Ridiculing that the BJP was "indeed a party with a difference'' which has given a "Government with a difference'', Mr. Surjewala said the whole of the BJP including the Prime Minister and other members of the Sangh Pariwar -- VHP, RSS, Bajrang Dal and Swadeshi Jagran Manch -- had proved to be beneficiaries of these allotments. Senior Congress leaders and heads of IYC's State units were also present on the occasion.

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